Mathematics
Posted on 16 January 2011
The paradoxes of Zeno and the arguments of Melissus develop the ideas of Parmenides and defend his Eleatic monism.
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Posted on 23 October 2011
Peter wraps up Plato and Aristotle by discussing their followers: Speusippus and Xenocrates (the “Old Academy”), and the polymath Theophrastus.
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Posted on 29 April 2012
Pioneering thinkers Eudorus, Alcinous, and Numenius fuse Pythagoreanism with Platonism and pave the way for Plotinus.
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Posted on 24 June 2012
How did the mathematics of figures like Euclid and Archimides relate to ancient philosophy? Peter finds out in an interview with Serafina Cuomo.
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Posted on 30 September 2012
Dominic O'Meara speaks with Peter about political philosophy and mathematics in Neoplatonism.
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Posted on 4 June 2017
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.
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Posted on 8 October 2017
Changing ideas about money, just price, and usury, up to the time of Buridan, Oresme, and Gregory of Rimaini.
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Posted on 7 April 2019
Mathematics and the sciences in Byzantium, focusing on scholars of the Palaiologan period like Blemmydes and Metochites.
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Posted on 6 December 2020
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimedes and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.
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Posted on 3 January 2021
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
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Posted on 6 June 2021
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.
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Posted on 20 June 2021
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
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Posted on 27 March 2022
How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?
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Posted on 24 April 2022
Kepler combines Brahe's observations, Copernicus' astronomy, and Platonist metaphysics.
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Posted on 25 September 2022
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy, not to mention some juicy academic quarrels in Paris.
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Posted on 28 December 2010
Peter discusses the Pre-Socratic philosopher Pythagoras, as well as Pythagoreanism and the role of mathematics in ancient philosophy.
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